From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:26:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] builtin/checkout: avoid usage of '!!'
Message-ID: <fbe3d3e2-a14c-fe7c-7e5d-c24789b249ca@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e07a613e-8b69-e382-777b-b5797270ecaf@gmail.com>

Wait, I missed a contradiction here.

On Wednesday 20 September 2017 09:30 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ....  And !!ptr is a shorter and more established way than ptr
> != NULL to turn non-NULL ness into an int boolean,

Documentation/SubmittingPatches says:

>  - Some clever tricks, like using the !! operator with arithmetic
>    constructs, can be extremely confusing to others.
If !!ptr is a **more established way** to then why should it confuse 
others. Of course,
!!ptr was stated as an "exception-rule" where ptr is a pointer (possibly 
NULL). That makes
me wonder in what case is it "confusing" at all?

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Kaartic